Germany criminalizes denying war crimes, genocide
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Holocaust denial has long been illegal in Germany, but a new amendment also criminalizes the denial of other war crimes and genocides —...
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U.N. decides to set up investigation into Iran protests
The United Nations' top human rights body on Thursday decided by a comfortable margin to establish a new investigative mission to probe...
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US diplomat highlights CNN's report on 'unspeakable' rapes of Iranian activists in detention
America's top diplomat for Iran has highlighted CNN's investigation into sexual violence that revealed sexual assaults on male and female...
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Deaths of Children at Iran Protests Stir Anger Among Demonstrators
Hundreds chanted for the death of Iran’s leader at a funeral for a 9-year-old boy killed this week WSJ’s Shelby Holliday breaks down the...
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CNN Special Report: How Iran's security forces use rape to quell protests
Covert testimonies reveal sexual assaults on male and female activists as a women-led uprising spreads "They’d choose the women who were...
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Islamic Republic Deploys Military To Quash Protests In Kurdish City
Protesters in the city of Mahabad. The protests in Iran continued overnight into Sunday as the Islamic Republic resorted to deploying the...
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Human rights groups report widespread abuse in Ukraine
For 10 days, Alesha Babenko was locked in a basement and regularly beaten by Russian soldiers. Bound, blindfolded and threatened with...
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Iran Hands Out More Death Sentences to Protesters
Sentences amplify fears that the Iranian state will use executions to suppress the demonstrations WSJ’s Shelby Holliday breaks down the...
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More than 8 months into Russia’s armed attack on Ukraine and the ensuing escalation in hostilities
the UN reports widespread abuse, torture of prisoners of war Speech by Matilda Bogner The Office of the High Commissioner for Human...
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Ukraine / Russia: Prisoners of war
Over the past several months, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has interviewed 159 prisoners of war (139 men and 20...
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